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15. Sefer Torah Dedication Song
… The second stanza of the song refers to two stories from midrash. One tells how the Torah was inscribed on a diamond …
3. Song of the Second Temple’s Destruction (Leaving Kodungallur)
… for the old Hebrew measurement parasang used in a midrash describing the land that Moshe viewed as “a square …
26. Ādhāra Pĕtti (The Document Box)
… (d. 1935) for the holiday of Purim, recounting a story from Midrash about the humiliation and death of Haman's daughter. …
25. Śĕlomŏ Meleh Pāṭiya Pāṭṭu (Ten Songs of King Solomon)
… the ten great songs sung by King Solomon, as mentioned in Midrash, commemorating important moments in the Bible. There …
18. Song of Sarah-Umma (Mother Sarah)
… melody. This song recounts several stories from Bible and Midrash about Mother Sarah - her pregnancy, the birth of …
Yaakov Huri
… and sisters. Huri acquired his education in the Beit Midrash of Baghdad and was considered a child prodigy. By …
1. El Atán, el Atado y el Ara (Et Sha'arei Ratzon)
… The biblical narrative is expanded in the piyyut with midrashim (post-biblical commentaries) that elaborate the …
Linked by Melody: Gibraltar/Moroccan Songs for Passover (and Shavuoth)
… probably intended for pedagogical purposes, includes also midrashic references. Specifically, this text belongs to a …
8-11. El nacimiento de Abraham- version 4: Cuando el rey Nimrod
… text draws on aggadah (rabbinic exegetical texts) and later midrashim , placing Abraham’s birth in Ur Kasdim during the …
8-11. El nacimiento de Abraham- version 2: La mujer de Terah
… story of Abraham’s birth and his growth as it appears in midrashic sources. Abraham ordered his mother to leave him …